Mar 24, 2016. Defective RAM can cause all sorts of problems. your PC frequently freezes, reboots, or brings up a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), bad RAM just might be the problem. Windows comes with its own memory diagnostic tool.

If your PC is very unstable — perhaps with blue-screen crashes or regular file corruption — and all your usual troubleshooting tricks have failed, then it’s often a good idea to check for RAM. on Error). Should the program be.

Just installed a new 4GB DDR2-800 module into my PC (specs in signature) for a total of 6GB RAM. After a few times of the PC not posting I swapped the RAM modules.

If you’re encountering application failures, operating system faults, or other errors, it’s all too easy to blame. Once the Windows Memory Diagnostics tool’s blue screen appears, the test will commence. As the test advances you’ll see.

Microsoft seems to indicate that for Windows Vista Home Basic, 512 MB of RAM will. with an out of memory error, the Windows Vista shell can begin to lose integrity, with absent menus and tabs as well as reboots or even the blue.

If you can, kindly include the exact error messages you are getting. home and.